January 2001 - Zope-Announce

REMINDER: Zope track at Python 9!
by Brian Lloyd 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Hello all, Just a reminder that the ninth international Python conference is right around the corner, and that there will be a Zope track again this year. More information on the Zope Track at Python 9 may be found at: http://www.python9.org/p9-zope1.html We invite you to come out and meet fellow Zopistas, learn about Perl for Zope, the future of ZPatterns and what's in store for Zope in 2001. Note that "early bird" registration for Python 9 ends February 2nd - for more information about Python 9 or the Zope Track see http://www.python9.org/. Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.0 final released
by Brian Lloyd 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Hello all, Zope 2.3.0 final has been released - you can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0/ Zope 2.3 is focused on improving productivity, ease of use and performance. New features in the 2.3 release supporting these goals include: - Scripts to allow safe web management of logic, dramatically improving the ability to separate logic and presentation in site design - Cache Managers to provide a powerful caching infrastructure for dramatically improving site responsiveness while retaining dynamicism - Built-in infrastructure for complex virtual hosting of multiple sites on one server - Significantly improved Zope Management Interface for web-based authoring and administration - Other important changes, such as improvements in WebDAV support, customizable object creation, running an optional server for browsing source documents, significant improvements in cataloging and indexing, and a new quick start document with references to the most important documentation for new users Zope 2.3 also marks the first feature release where a significant amount of the work was done "in the fishbowl" using our open development process on dev.zope.org. This release owes a lot to the hard work of many in the Zope community in addition to folks here at DC. The MVPs for Zope 2.3 include: - Evan Simpson (Python scripting and SiteAccess) - Shane Hathaway (CacheManager and many other things) - Adam Davis (improvements to the Zope interface) - Chris Petrilli (ZCatalog) - Toby Dickenson (improved Python 2 support) - Chris McDonough (improved UserFolders) - John Odom (StructuredText NG) - Michel Pelletier (Interfaces and new Quickstart) - Casey Duncan (ZCatalog patches) - Tres Seaver (FTP and DAV support in ZClasses) - John Heintz (patch for ExtensionClass) - Chris Withers (patches and bug hunting) - Tom Vijlbrief (FTP rename support) - Dieter Maurer (patches and bug hunting) My apologies to anyone I've missed - thanks also to the many who participated the alpha and beta cycles and provided feedback. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0/HISTORY.txt Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.0 beta 3 released
by Brian Lloyd 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Hi all, Zope 2.3.0 beta 3 is now available. You can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0b3/ This beta contains fixes for various issues reported to date in the beta cycle, and some older Collector bugs. Barring any major unforseen problems, this will be the last 2.3 beta release. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0b3/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0b3/HISTORY.txt Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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New release of ZStyleSheet
by Adrian Hungate 20 Jan '01

20 Jan '01

I have just uploaded a new version of ZStyleSheet. The major changes are: * I have added the browser string for MSIE 5.5 and verified that Netscape 6 works. * I have ensured that every function, method and class has a meaningful docstring. Enjoy... Adrian...

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.0 beta 2 released
by Brian Lloyd 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

Hello all - Zope 2.3.0 beta 2 is now available. You can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0b2/ Highlights of the beta 2 release: - Changed the implementation of emergency_user to be backward compatible with the expectations of third-party user folders. All third party user folders should now work with Zope 2.3 without modification. - Zope is now much more tolerant of dependency problems in ZClasses. Some people were experiencing problems porting Products to upgraded Zope sites when their products contained ZClasses derived from base classes in other products (which may or may not have been installed on the new site). Zope is now much smarter about managing and recovering from failed base class dependencies and will re-register broken ZClasses when the missing Product causing the problem is installed. - Fixes for several other (more minor) bugs reported from beta 1 For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0b2/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0b2/HISTORY.txt Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope Weekly News for January 19th
by ethan fremen 19 Jan '01

19 Jan '01

Go to the Linux World Expo or EuroZopeCon, Download Zope 2.3 now, WikisHereNow, Get trained in Python and Zope, and test Session Tracking in this imperative ZWN The opinions expressed in Zope Weekly news are solely the authors', and not the opinions of Digital Creations, The Zope Community at-large, or the Spanish Inquisition. If you or your company are doing something cool with zope, "submit it to the Zope Weekly News", mailto:zope-web@zope.org for possible inclusion. And Now For Something Completely Different: --- Upcoming Events If you are on the American continent, you must get a "free exhibits-only pass", http://www.digicool.com/gary/lwexhibitspass.pdf and attend the Linux World Expo January 31st / February 2nd, New York. If you are in Europe you must attend the "EuroZopeCon", http://lwn.net/2000/1221/a/eurozopecon.php3 January 23 and 24, Amsterdam. A *true* Zopatista would visit both. --- Train for the Revolution Zopatista! Are you getting skewered because some PHB is making nervous-noises about Zope? Tell them that they could take any of their employees, and send them to kaivo to train in Python with Mark Lutz, author of _Learning Python_: http://www.kaivo.com/KaivoCourses/display_catalog#jumpto?referring_entity=I nternal&catalog_course=Python Then the employee could learn "Zope Zen": http://www.kaivo.com/KaivoCourses/display_catalog#jumpto?referring_entity= Internal&catalog_course=Zope%20101. Finally, they could have that employee work on Zope for *three years* -- or, for about the same price, they could buy a shrink-wrapped content management system. --- Zope Status by Brian Lloyd Summary Zope 2.3 beta 2 release coming soon Recent News Zope 2.3 beta 1 was released last week - so far there have been only relatively minor issues. Beta 2 may come as early as Friday the 19th, with fixes to the current known issues. We hope to get 2.3 finalized by the 29 of January. Action in the Fishbowl has still been pretty slow since the holidays. High on the priority list after the 2.3 release is to pay some attention to organizing the dev.zope.org site. --- Documentation by Michel Pelletier Amos is on vacation, gorging himself no-doubt on French Fries, French Bread, and French Dressing. I love French cuisine. Everything I'm working on is secret this week. Sorry. Some great book news is on its way so stay tuned! I guess I should throw in at least "one link":http://www.zope.org/Documentation to something quite useful. --- Zope Web --by Ethan Fremen Track This Session! You have to download and test "Core Session Tracking", http://www.zope.org/Members/mcdonc/Products/CoreSessionTracking because the next generation Zope.org will depend on it heavily. /Documentation updated Thanks to Andrew Kenneth Milton for pointing out that SQL Methods were absent from the new Documentation page. WikisHereNow A big round of applause for Ken Manheimer, for not only putting together WikiForNow but actually spending the time to update all the wikis on zope.org. Edit a wiki today! -EOT-

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ZMySQLDA Zope Product 2.0.3
by Andy Dustman 18 Jan '01

18 Jan '01

Zope MySQL Database Adapter Stability: Experimental Released: 2001-01-18 21:24 UTC Notes This experimental version re-integrates the two adapters in 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 back into a single DA. If you have any ZMySQLTDA connections around, they will be broken. Recreate them as ZMySQLDA connections, and select "Use transactions". Design notes: This version always mixes in the TM class for Transaction Manager support. If transactions are requested, it first checks to see if the server supports them. Then when queries are issued with query(), it only registers the transaction with _register() if transactions are enabled. Hopefully this works the way I think it does. NOTE: You must have MySQL-3.23.30 server or newer to use transactions. Earlier versions do not have a have_bdb server variable. Obviously it must have support for BDB tables as well. http://dustman.net/andy/python/ZMySQLDA/2.0.3 -- Andy Dustman PGP: 0xC72F3F1D @ .net http://dustman.net/andy

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ZMySQLDA Zope Product 2.0.2
by Andy Dustman 18 Jan '01

18 Jan '01

Zope MySQL Database Adapter Stability: Good Released: 2000-01-18 00:00 UTC Notes This is a bugfix release. If you are using an earlier version, I highly recommend you upgrade. The database-specific quoting mechanism was misnamed and broken as well. The database browser now shows more reasonable column types. ZMySQLTDA, which supports the transaction manager, now ensures when the connection is open that your MySQL server supports BDB tables (works only for 3.23.30 and later). You still have to use BDB tables for transactions to work, and should get errors if Zope tries to rollback when non-transactional tables have been modified. As usual, untar this in your Zope home directory (where the lib directory is) and restart Zope. Obviously you need MySQLdb version 0.3.0 or newer. http://dustman.net/andy/python/ZMySQLDA/2.0.2 -- Andy Dustman PGP: 0xC72F3F1D @ .net http://dustman.net/andy

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ANNOUNCE: Zope 2.3.0 beta 1 released
by Brian Lloyd 16 Jan '01

16 Jan '01

Hello all, Zope 2.3.0 beta 1 is now available. You can download it from Zope.org: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0b1/ This release contains the final new features for 2.3, including: - A browser preferences screen to allow people to tweak certain aspects of the new management UI to their liking. For the folks who complained that they didn't like the new top frame, they can (among other things) turn it off from the browser preferences screen. - Michel and Amos' new QuickStart material. This is different in spirit than the old "QuickStart" folder. The new material is meant as a handy high-level set of pointers to important learning materials. The old "QuickStart" folder is still around by default for the beta release - we will need to decide whether to get rid of it altogether or whether it still has value as an example and should be cleaned up and retained. - The logout function has been implemented in a fairly minimal way. We will try to make this nicer by final if we get time. - Chris Petrilli has cleaned up the ZCatalog interface and done some logical reorganization to move some things onto an Advanced tab. For more information on what is new in this release, see the CHANGES.txt and HISTORY.txt files for the release: - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0b1/CHANGES.txt - http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.3.0b1/HISTORY.txt Note that now we are in the beta period, so binaries are now available for all of the usual platforms. Enjoy! Brian Lloyd brian(a)digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com

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Zope.org wikis change-restricted for hour or two from *11:00am* today, Jan 16 today, Jan 16
by Ken Manheimer 16 Jan '01

16 Jan '01

We're having some logistical delays getting started, so we haven't and won't be shutting down the wiki page changes until 11:00. I'll post another note when they're back and ready... Sorry about the time shifts! Ken ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:37:56 -0500 (EST) From: Ken Manheimer <klm(a)digicool.com> To: zope-announce(a)zope.org, zope-web(a)zope.org Subject: Zope.org wikis change-restricted for hour from 10:00am tomorrow, Jan 16 At 10:00 tomorrow (tuesday, Jan 16) we're going to be upgrading all the wikis on zope.org. All the wikis on the site will be restricted against changes for an hour, if everything goes smoothly, hopefully within 2 hours if there are unexpected problems. This upgrade will entail some substantial cleanup of the existing wikis, and other changes wiki owners need to understand. If you own or use wikis on zope.org, please see below for details. The changes come out of an update with a recent ZWiki release from simon michael, and then the enhancments resulting from the WikiForNow effort: http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/WikiForNow The cleanup entails the following: - Deletion of all zero-length wiki pages (excluding FrontPage) - dispose of all the inadvertant pages, many due to web spiders - Assignment of sensible 'Owner' local-role for poorly defaulted settings - the old ZWiki and ZWikiWeb products set the role to the product owner. This has to be rectified since ability to regulate who can do what on new pages hinges on 'Owner' local role. (See RegulatingYourPages.) - Change many of the existing standard pages and methods (HelpPage, TextFormattingRules, SearchPage, etc) to reflect the realities in the new version (and to clarify and elaborate some pieces missing in the existing pages) There are many enhancments, some (like wiki operation regulations) depend on some of these cleanups. See http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/WikiForNow/WikiForNowDevelopments for a thorough list. I'll be making the changes available shortly, and forwarding them to simon michael for inclusion, at his discretion, in the ZWiki base code. Let me know if you have questions or concerns about the changes. Ken Manheimer klm(a)digicool.com

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